User talk:LazyEditor
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[edit] Welcome
Welcome!
Hello, LazyEditor, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- How to edit a page
- Help pages
- Tutorial
- How to write a great article
- Manual of Style
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! --TeaDrinker 02:27, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks, I've been waiting for this canned message for a long time (just so there's something in my talkpage). Why not just use a bot for this? That way we get a standard message with standard links (I've seen some editors add a few links for their own personal interest, something I don't appreciate). — LazyEditor (talk) 02:46, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
- I suppose a bot would be useful, although in theory at least, editors who welcome new users may also become a starting point for questions etc. There are a great many welcome messages (see Wikipedia:Welcome template table), and some folks write there own. I had actually been considering writing up a welcome message for more specific cases (as you note, the message is less relevant to users, such as yourself who have been around for a while). Anyhow, welcome indeed. --TeaDrinker 02:55, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
- Cool, I didn't know there were templates for these welcome messages. To be honest, I feel weird receiving a message from a real user that sounds like a bot message :-). But thanks anyway, especially for choosing a very useful template (I didn't know about the helpme template before). — LazyEditor (talk) 11:21, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
- I suppose a bot would be useful, although in theory at least, editors who welcome new users may also become a starting point for questions etc. There are a great many welcome messages (see Wikipedia:Welcome template table), and some folks write there own. I had actually been considering writing up a welcome message for more specific cases (as you note, the message is less relevant to users, such as yourself who have been around for a while). Anyhow, welcome indeed. --TeaDrinker 02:55, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Vietnamese input methods
Thanks, you guessed well. :^) I've expanded the articles a little bit using the text from VIQR. The IME you tried out, AVIM, was developed by a Vietnamese Wikipedia user for use on our editing screen; Vietnamese-language websites are expected to provide JavaScript-based IMEs, since Internet access in Vietnam is typically from Internet cafés that don't have IMEs installed on the desktop. AVIM is better than most, since it had to be efficient enough to work with lots of text (our articles tend to get lengthy), and it had to allow the user to type into the middle of the text. (Most Vietnamese IMEs are only designed for search boxes and only let you enter text at the end.) But a lot of pain went into making this painless. :^) – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 17:37, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
- Apparently there's a Vietnamese-language version of Windows marketed in Vietnam, but as far as I know, it doesn't include an IME for Vietnamese. The Vietnamese keyboard layout included in standard versions of Windows uses dead keys to input combining characters, but combining diacritics are generally frowned upon by Vietnamese speakers, in favor of precomposed characters. All Macintoshes come with a similar keyboard layout, but it produces precomposed characters, so it's really an IME. Unfortunately, that IME isn't so useful, since I don't know if anyone in Vietnam uses a Mac. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 18:49, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
